L. was born in November 1899 in Nikolayev, Kherson Gubernia, Ukraine. Her father was the manager of a beer factory. She completed a professional school. She acted in Russian with "amateurs". In 1915 she became acquainted with (Aaron) Lebedeff during his performance in Nikolayev and married him. He taught her Yiddish.

In 1916 she performed in Harbin in the role of "Milka" in Gordin's "Der meturef" and continued to act in the troupe, with whom she also acted in Shanghai. Here she also acted in Russian with the dramatic troupe of Michail Hermalensky, and when Lebedeff left China on the way to America, she stayed there to act in Russian in a Russian club.

In 1920 she came to America, but first in 1925 she performed in Schildkraut's  theatre in Dymov's "Bronx Express" and "Di letste gelibte" and in Asch's "God of Vengeance", and then she traveled with Schildkraut across the province, and for a certain time L. acted with the Vilna Troupe in new York, then in the Liberty Theatre with Anshel Schorr, and in 1927-28 in Toronto.

In 1931-32 L. acted under the name of Vera Lubov in the National Theatre, and in 1932-33 she was at the Second Avenue Theatre.
 

M. E.

• Jacob Kirschenbaum -- "Naye pnim'er oyf unzer bihne, "Morning Journal", N. Y., 4 April 1928.